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PUBLISHED WEEKLY
ATLANTICCHRISTIAN COLLEGE JANUARY 15, 1976
NUMBER NINE
Dr. Loretta Long, Sesame
Street's Susan, will be the
featured speaker on Saturday,
January 17,1976, at a seminar on
early childhood education. Dr.
Long will appear at Hardy
Dr. Sharp
Dr. Allan R. Sharp, professor
of religion at Atlantic Christian
College, has been named to the
first edition of “Who’s Who in
Religion.” The new biographical
directory was compiled and
published by “Who’s Who in
America.”
“Who’s Who in Relgion”
provides a comprehensive
compendium of America’s
religious leaders chosen from
church offices, clergy,
professors of religion and lay
leaders. Those selected for this
volume were chosen for out
standing achievements in the
field of religion.
Dr. Sharp has taught at
Atlantic Christian College for 23
years and has at the same time
served as minister of the Dudley
Christian Church in Dudley,
N.C. A native of Kentucky, he
earned the A. B. degree from
Transylvania University, his
theology degree from Lexington
Theological Seminary, and his
doctorate from Duke University.
He has also studied at UNC-at
Chapel Hill and the University of
Pittsburgh.
He is married to the former
Miss Glyn High of Wilson. They
have three children, Cindy,
Rhine, and Tim.
Art: Weaving
A Show of 23 weavings by
Donna Horie, adjunct instructor
in art at Atlantic Christian
College, is now on exhibit in the
gallery of Case Art Building, on
the college campus. A course in
weaving is being offered during
the current semester at the
college for the first time.
A resident of Raleigh, she is a
graduate of the University of
Wisconsin and has done further
study at Connecticut College and
Yale University. She is the wife
of Yasu Yuki Horie, an
engineering professor at North
Carolina State University.
She served on the faculty of
Antioch College in Ohio from
1955-1961. She has also taught at
the Haystack School of Crafts at
the N. C. State Craft Center, and
has served as “Artist-in-the-
Schools,” in Raleigh. Mrs. Horie
is considered to be a leader
among those who are raising
traditional crafts to the level of
fine art.
Since 1952 she has pursued the
study of weaving by attending
many workshops with well
known weavers. She has worked
and lived in England, Scotland,
Poland and Japan. Mrs. Horie
has conducted many workshops
in this country and has par
ticipated in many exhibits. Her
ttork is being sold through shops
in New York City, Washington,
C., Maine, California and
Massachusetts.
As the present day boom in
crafts progresses, more one-of-
a^kind, creative, non-functional
pieces appear in exhibits. Most
0 the examples represented in
ar! Christian
to be enjoyed as visual ob-
J6cts as one would view painting
or sculpture, and would fall in
® non-functional category,
n general, the same basic
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Loretta Long to Appear in Wilson
e. Sesame ®t Atlantic i.nno anH
Alumni Hall at Atlantic
Christian College at 10:00 a.m.
Following her lecture, there will
be a luncheon at 12:00 at the
First Christian Church. Com
pleting the program at 1:00 will
be a panel discussion, with Dr.
Long and local participants, also
at the First Christin Church. The
public is invited to all sessions.
Organized by the Atlantic
Christian College Woman's Club
as a Bicentennial contribution to
the Wilson area, the seminar is
Loretta Long
Musical Programs
Mrs. Elizabeth Tippett Nichols
of Wilson, was presented in a
senior piano recital by the
Atlantic Christian College
Department of Music, Tuesday,
Jan. 6, at 8 p.m., in Howard
Chapel on the college campus.
The program included a
prelude by Debussy, an etude by
Chopin, a fantasia by Haydn,
two intermezzi bv Brahms, and
a concertino for two pianos by
Shostakovitch. She was assisted
in the duet by Dorothy Jane
Bostick of the ACC music
faculty.
Mrs. Nichols studied under
Charles Bath of the East
Carolina University music
faculty, Mrs. Thelma Sasser of
Rocky Mount, and is presently
studying under Miss Bostick.
She is the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. A. Lloyd Tippett of
Washington, N. C., and wife of
Albert J. Nichols Jr. of Wilson.
Thomas Denton of Bala
Cyndyd, Pa., was presented in a
senior trumpet recital by the
Atlantic Christian College
Department of Music, on
Thursday, Jan, 8, at 8 p.m., in
Howard Chapel, on the college
campus.
A music education major,
Denton was assisted by Ms.
Alice K. Rousseau, Dorothy
Jane Bostick of the ACC music
faculty, and the ACC Con
temporary Chamber Ensemble,
under the direction of David
Arnold. Included in the program
American Arts Fest
The Atlantic Christian College
American Arts Festival will
inaugurate its spring calendar of
events with two programs of 20th
century experimental music by
three American composers.
The first concert will feature
the music of Charles Ives and
John Cage on Thursday, Jan. 15,
at 8 p.m., in the choral room of
Hackney Music Hall, on the
college campus.
The concert will be presented
by The ACC Contemporary
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co-sponsored by the North
Carolina Humanities Com
mittee, Pi Gamma Mu, the ACC
Concert and Lecture Series, and
the Student (iovernment
Association. The only chiirge for
those attending will be for the
luncheon.
Dr. Long is especially well
qualified to talk about the ex-
pt'riences that influence the
education of young children. A
teacher with a doctorate in
education, she is one of the
original participants in the
Children's Television
Workshop's production. Sesame
Street. She has done exteasive
work in making learning ex
citing for the children. Dr. Long
says, "Wliat difference d(x>s it
make if a child learns through a
jingle or a game or by reading a
book? The important thing is
that he learns.” As an educator,
Loretta Long believes that
subject matter does not have to
be dull in order to educate. On
Saturday, she will be talking
about innovative methods of
teaching, the impact of media on
learning, and the role of the
mother in education of pre
schoolers.
The panel discussion in the
afternoon will provide an op
portunity for audience piir-
ticipation. The [vinel includes
Dr Long aixi local piTsons Kdna
K. Boykin, principal at
Margaret Hearne Klementary
School; Dorothy Hammonds,
first grade teacher at Adams
Klementary School; Joan
Hemby, the panel's moderator.
Coordinator, Programmed
Reading Wilson City Schools;
■Mrs. Alex Mooty, Director-
teacher, St. Timothy's Nursery
School; Catherine Panarese,
Junior English education major
at the college; Mary Schneider,
mother and former teacher in
California and North Carolina
sch(X)l systems; and Dr Thomas
M. Swartzwelder, Director of
Children's Services and Director
of Mental Retardation Services,
Wilson-Cireene Mental Health
('enter.
College faculty, wives, and
students who have organized
this semiruir include Eikn'n
Anderson, Ellen Bowen, Gret-
chen Boyette, Beth Frazier.
Sarah Gattis, Dr. .Mildred
Harls<K-k, Ruth Marshall, Betty
Purcell, Dolores Williams, and
Betty .MacLean, Chairman of the
Seminar Committee. Sigma
Sigma Sigma has also hel[H-d
with the function.
Britton Brings Lute
will be works by Corelli,
Hummel, Gorder, Hindemith
and Riisager.
Denton, a native Californian,
has been playing trumpet for 14
years, and has studied privately
with Ron Modell, formerly with
the Dallas Symphony
Orchestra; Charles Brady,
formerly with the National
Symphony Orchestra in
Washington, D. C.; Col, Gil
Mitchell, U. S, Army Ret.; and
Marvin Lamb, assistant
professor at ACC.
He is the son of Dr. J. C.
Denton, 111 David Road, Bala
Cyndyd, Pa.
Miss Denise Gregory of Shiloh,
N. C. was presented in a senior
piano recital by the Atlantic
Christian College Department of
Music, Sunday, Jan. 11, at 4
p.m., in Howard Chapel on the
college campus.
Works featured included two
Scarlatti sonatas, a Beethoven
sonata, the Schumann “Scenes
of Childhood,” and a selection of
pieces from “The Circus,” by
Turina, a 20th century Spanish
composer.
A music education major,
Miss Gregory has studied with
Mrs, Shirley Davis McLellan of
Greensboro, Mrs. Thelma
Sasser of Rocky Mount, and
Dorothy Jane Bostick of the ACC
music faculty.
She is the daughter of Mr, and
Mrs, C,G. Gregory of Shiloh,
This Monday evening.
January 19 at 7:30 in Howard
Chapel, the Campus Christian
Association and Convocation Co
ordinating Committee will be
sponsoring a concert given by
George Britton, a nationally
known folk singer from
Philadelphia, Pa. He is a “singer
to the lute and guitar,”
possessing a mastery of both
instruments combined with a
beautiful baritone voice, making
him an outstanding performer.
George Britton has been
described as a man who "con
veys sincerity and warmth
easily creating rapport with his
audience.”
Mr. Britton has performed
numerous times on radio,
television, recordings, on series,
and with orchestras. He has
travelled the length and breadth
of America, singing his reper
tory of 1,500 songs that vary
from Old English to Colonial
America to Ethnic to protest
songs and ones that penetrate
the social conscience.
From a family of Scots-Irish
and Pennsylvania Dutch
heritage, George Britton’s
musical experiences began as a
child singing with his large
family. At age thirteen he began
serious study of music, which
continued for the next seven
years, during which time he
studied vocal techniques,
languages, and related musical
subjects. He was originally
expected to enter the field of
oratorio, opera, and the concert
stage.
But after travelling around the
country, he became more in
terested in the songs of the
people. Having learned songs in
French, Spanish, Italian, Latin,
Hebrew, Yiddish, Polish,
Pennsylvania Dutch, English,
and five other languages, he was
able to enlarge his repertory
considerably. He was also able
to meet the old-time minstrel
Uncle Remus from whom he
learned songs that go far back
into the Civil War period.
George Britton’s name has
become synonymous for many
with the folk song movement.
Among the places he has per
formed, many with return ap
pearances, are the University of
Pennsylvania, Miami-Dade
College, Lincoln University,
Penn State University,
University of Oregon,
Philadelphia Orchestra Special
Concerts, St. Gauden’s Museum,
and Villanova University.
The music that Britton per
forms provides a bridge between
generations, ethnic groups, and
people. He sings songs of
Americana, Old English songs
with the lute, and songs with a
commentary on the world today.
On his seventeen string lute, he
performs the Elizabethan folk
songs and with guitar he bridges
the gap to the music of today.
The concert will last ap
proximately an hour and a half,
and there is no admission
charge. Mr. Britton will also be
leading a folk worship service
for the student body on Tuesday,
January 20 at 11:00 in Howard
Chapel.
Cathy Law
George Britton, a nationally
known folk singer and a master
of the voice, lute, and guitar, will
be giving a concert on January
19 at 7:30 in Howard Chapel. The
event is sponsored by the
Campus Christian association
and the Convocation Co
ordinating Committee.